The 2007 Gnome Users and Developers Conference

GUADEC GATHERING

More than 400 Gnome users and developers gathered in the United Kingdom for the July 2007 GUADEC conference.

GUADEC, the annual Gnome users and developers conference, is one of the larger project gatherings on the Linux calendar [1]. This year’s gathering in Birmingham, UK, was no different. More than 400 people were in attendance, from all aspects of the Gnome community. A general buzz of excitement at the Birmingham Conservatoire focused on some early talks about the selection of Gnome and its applications for the Open Moko phone and the Nokia 770 and 800 mobile tablets, and as the desktop of choice for Canonical’s Ubuntu distribution.

In July this year, the KDE community conference (Akademy) and the Gnome Users and Developers' Conference (GUADEC) will for the first time be co-located on the Spanish Canary Islands. Registration for the event has already opened and KDE is calling for presentation submissions.

The first joint conference with KDE and Gnome is set to kick off on July 3rd on the island vacation destination Grand Canary. Richard Stallman is expected to attend for the opening of Guadec and Akademy.